Collins, Sir Rory (Edwards), (born 3 Jan. 1955), Co-director, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, since 1986, British Heart Foundation Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, since 1996, Nuffield Professor of Population Health, since 2016, and Head, Nuffield Department of Population Health, since 2013, University of Oxford; Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford, since 2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 86-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Ford ◽  
David Corcoran ◽  
Keith G. Oldroyd ◽  
Margaret McEntegart ◽  
Paul Rocchiccioli ◽  
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1978 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. MITCHELL ◽  
A. P. F. FLINT ◽  
E. J. KINGSTON ◽  
G. D. THORBURN ◽  
J. S. ROBINSON

Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU (Received 9 February 1978) It has been shown that prostaglandins play an important role in the mechanism of parturition in many species, including the goat (Currie & Thorburn, 1977; Thorburn, Challis & Robinson, 1977). Recently we have demonstrated that intra-uterine tissues from pregnant goats, when superfused in vitro, produce prostaglandins E and F (PGE, PGF) and 13,14-dihydro-15-oxo-prostaglandin F at various rates (Mitchell, Flint, Robinson & Thorburn, 1978). The exciting discoveries of two potent prostaglandin-like compounds, thromboxane A2 (TXA2; Hamberg, Svensson & Samuelsson, 1975) and prostacyclin (PGI2; Moncada, Gryglewski, Bunting & Vane, 1976), have radically altered our thinking on prostaglandins and basic data are urgently required concerning these compounds. Since prostaglandin endoperoxides are the immediate precursors of both prostaglandins and TXA2 (and PGI2) and since TXA2 has been shown to cause contraction of a number


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